Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

Bash script for editing the hosts file

I just read a post about local development in apache by Jesper Rasmussen and thought one thing was missing. I usually test my sites and applications locally with the real domain – to ensure that functionality based on the url works as expected. However this means editing the hosts file several times a day. Now [...]

November 4, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Web development  One Comment

Would I Pass the Zend PHP5 Certification Exam?

I have just used 20 minutes on testing my php5 skills before taking the actual certification exam in the future.
As expected, by me at least, I lack some skills in arrays, string manipulation and regular expressions. I knew this. I always look up details when I use this. Database access questions are all based [...]

April 16, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

Could MemcacheQ be Used For Cometd?

I have been wondering for a couple of weeks would it be possible to use MemcacheQ as a kind of backend for Cometd? The reason I find it interesting is that sending message to the queue(s) would be as easy as

memcache_set($memcache_obj, $memcache_queue_name, $msg, 0, 0);

In other words easy as pie.
Since there are all [...]

April 7, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

New Versions of Dojo and Plugd Released

I have not posted for about a week now, the main reason is that I am working on something very exciting, which will be features here in the comming days, if all works out.
Today, while reading the most recent posts on Ajaxian, I found the announcement of the Dojo 1.3 release. Read the announcement [...]

April 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

New Application? Just Write The Damn Thing

I have been getting a thought into my head the last couple of days. I have been talking a lot about things surrounding web application building the last weeks. Primarily it has been about all the things that are common to most of the application ideas that I have. While reading about Scaling Twitter though, [...]

March 23, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Business, Web development  No Comments

Web Application Startup – a howto

Having business ideas is not enough. As I have previously written I have a lot of them. My ideas have primarily been generated out of what I know, and as such from the needs that I either have had myself, privately or profesionally, or that I have experienced first hand from others. As such I [...]

March 18, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Business, Web development  No Comments